Pricing participating policies under the Meixner process and stochastic volatility
journal contribution
posted on 2024-11-02, 00:51authored byBrett Shanahan, Farzad Alavi Fard, John van der Hoek
We propose a model for the valuation of participating life insurance products under the Meixner process, which belongs to the family of semi-heavy tailed processes. This particular model assumption is extremely desirable as it captures the stylised features of the return distribution, with existing moment generating functions. The highlight of the paper is the analytical solution derived for minimising the relative entropy between the historical and risk-neutral measures, when driving a pricing kernel. Further, we capture the stochastic volatility effect using an accurate polynomial approximation technique. Finally, to highlight the practical applications, we conduct a simulation experiment.